the foldable phone is here
How do you make a foldable display? As one anticipate think there are many levels to this, but a few themes or areas of innovation have been brought to light. The first is the display. It must be...
View ArticleApple streaming = 2 parts content, 1 part hardware
It is all well and good, but they seem to be fixated on a head-to-head competition with the likes of Netflix. This battle royal would be fought with content, including original. If Apple wants to...
View Articlepart II, the A12 is not just a speed bump
For the iPad Mini, the A12 is a significant jump in processing power compared to the A8 of the 4th generation Mini. The iPad Mini’s page on the Apple website states that it is “up to 3x faster …”....
View ArticleApple’s Mac Pro, wheels are optional
Apple moved from the shiny ultra-sleek to a steel frame that holds electronics. That said the airflow “holes” in the front and back of the casing are pretty neat. In the end, they, including on the...
View ArticleApple’s iRing … is it real ?
There were all manner of inputs and outputs, including gestures, as may be used to control an external electronic device. As we wrote at the time, the iRing may have been an idea on the cutting room...
View Articlefrom drone food delivery to the Huffman junction
One article indicated the drone will carry dinner for two and have a one way range of 8 minutes. It will fly from the restaurant to a central facility where the food is turned over to a driver to make...
View Articlean ARM in a Mac?
The other week, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg renewed this thread, suggesting ARM-based Macs will appear in 2021. Details included the project codename, the number and type of CPU cores and the presence of...
View Articlethe M1 and Apple processors past
Then this article was promoted by a prominent Apple pundit. I thought my “angle” on marketing had narrowed. But, the more I read, the more I felt something was missing; something was unsettling. It...
View Articleapple’s hobby product
TVs continue to have a solid hold on the living room, in defiance of tablets, laptops and phones. So, why hasn’t Apple jumped at the TV full throttle? Why have they not reinvented it? 2016 MacBook...
View Articlea Canadian semiconductor strategy
An Opinion discussing Canada’s potential role in semiconductors and need for a semiconductor strategy appeared in the Globe and Mail last week. It raised some good points. In broad brush strokes:...
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